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The song that takes you back to your youth.

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lemondrizzle Wed 19-Oct-16 16:16:30

Following on from the recent "sad song" thread can we share which song instantly takes you back to "your era" and give the approximate year.
For me it's 1968 and there are many (great music in the late 60s)....Everlasting Love by Love affair, Young girl by Gary Pucket and the Union Gap, The Mighty Quinn by Manfred Mann to name a few.

JackyB Wed 19-Oct-16 16:36:19

Maggie Mae by Rod Stewart - takes me back to the carefree summer of 1972 when A levels were over.

Greyduster Wed 19-Oct-16 18:04:14

1962 - the year I left home. Brian Hyland - "Sealed with a kiss"; The Four Seasons - "Big girls don't cry". Later it was anything by Burt Bacherach.

gillybob Wed 19-Oct-16 18:09:35

Oh yes lemondrizzle (I so wanted to add cake to the end of your name). smile

Donny Osmond's Puppy Love and then the Bay City Rollers Bye Bye Baby. Happy carefree days before it all went wrong

ninathenana Wed 19-Oct-16 18:34:31

Silence is Golden, my first slow dance with my first boyfriend at the youth club [sigh]

KatyK Wed 19-Oct-16 18:46:43

So many... Most of the Beatles and songs like Pretty Flamingo,
I got you babe, Joanna by The Walker Brothers, San Francisco by Scott McKenzie, Eve of Destruction by Barry McGuire, Young Girl - all '60s stuff for me smile

KatyK Wed 19-Oct-16 18:48:05

Ooo yes Silence is Golden - loved that and Every Time You Walk in the Room by the Searchers. I could go on forever - but I won't!

tanith Wed 19-Oct-16 18:48:18

Many Beatles songs but the Animals , House of the Rising Sun really takes me back.

Cherrytree59 Wed 19-Oct-16 18:48:36

On the embarrassing level as a 70s teeny bopperthlblush
Sugar baby love. Bay City Rollers
Puppy love. Donny Osmond
Here it is Merry christmas. Slade
On a more sensible level
I'm not in love. 10cc
Bridge over troubled water. Simon & Garfunkal
Bohemian Rhapsody. Queen

Sorry can't give exact dates
Can only remember that they were early seventies

When we were married in 1981.
My aunt slipped a single (that just happened to be in the charts at that time) into the pile of cards and telegrams (remember them?) Which were to be read out at the reception.

The record was by Godley and Cream
'Under your thumb!'

tanith Wed 19-Oct-16 18:49:52

Sorry that was 1964

Bbnan Wed 19-Oct-16 18:53:49

At 17 Janis Ian (1976)when I was 17

I want to stay with you for the rest of my life(Gallagher and Lyle) 1976 first song we danced to

You light up my life(first dance at wedding) Debbie Boone)1977 our wedding was in 1979
Very happy memories

gillybob Wed 19-Oct-16 19:00:58

I was a 70's teeny bopper too Cherrytree59 and agree with most of your choices. Wasn't Sugar Baby love the Rubettes? I loved that too. Loved Queen too.

At 17 by Janis Ian could go on my list of "songs that make the tears flow" Bbnan sad.

Christinefrance Wed 19-Oct-16 19:01:52

Mary Hopkins, Beatles, Helen Shapiro.
We also had to go to chapel twice a day on Sundays and Sunday school in the afternoon so as a good Methodist I can still recall the words to many hymns.

Bbnan Wed 19-Oct-16 19:04:03

I also loved 10 to 8 by David castles....reminds me of being first married and getting ready for work

f77ms Wed 19-Oct-16 19:11:29

First record bought was Venus in blue jeans by Bobby V 1961
All Bob Dylan songs take me back to my protest days, CND etc
In my life by the Beatles still makes me cry .
Later any Motown music , The temptations Just walk away Rene, This old heart of mine by the Isley brothers .
Music can take you back to happy or sad times like nothing else can .

Tisha1954 Wed 19-Oct-16 19:21:32

Walker brothers, sound of silence, band of gold and lots more.

LullyDully Wed 19-Oct-16 19:29:48

Strawberry fields for ever. Reminds me of a Sunday afternoon trip. Mx

Tisha1954 Wed 19-Oct-16 19:33:16

First time ever I saw your face, your'ebeautiful, Wanna be with you,

lemondrizzle Wed 19-Oct-16 19:38:18

f77ms I LOVED walk away Renee, my favourite Four Tops song, also This old heart of Mine and I Cant Help Myself.

Lazigirl Wed 19-Oct-16 19:42:27

Hey Jude. When I was a student nurse in theatre in the 60s and on call at night we'd all be singing this whilst doing emergency ops. Happy days. Paul McCartney didn't sound as good the last time he performed it!

BBbevan Wed 19-Oct-16 20:11:42

Poison Ivy. My first real boyfriend asked me out when I was dancing to it

Peep Wed 19-Oct-16 20:25:06

School's out - Alice Cooper - 1972. The summer I left secondary school, I hated school so much!!

boheminan Wed 19-Oct-16 21:00:26

Being a flowers hippy in the 60's meant for me lashings of Beatles, Hendrix, etc, but the song that went round and round in my head for a very long time was Bobby Gentry's version of 'I'll Never Fall In Love Again' I still have my 45rpm record, and it still leaves me feeling all fuzzy round the edges smile

Linsco56 Wed 19-Oct-16 21:38:00

Lindisfarne - Meet me on the corner
The Rolling Stones - Angie
Roxy Music - Virginia Plain
T Rex - Metal Guru
Hawkwind - Silver Machine

All of these take me right back to lunchtimes in the school common room. Happy times!

Deedaa Wed 19-Oct-16 21:42:51

Anything by the Beatles, Satisfaction and Paint it Black, and The Sunshine of Your Love.